This is a common mirror trick called Pepper's Ghost, it has been used for over a hundred years and has nothing to do with CGI, this is just a very very clever implementation of it. If you jump to around 4:10 you can see that the angles go a bit weird as he turns on the stage.

This picture illustrates very well just how it works. Watching the video is pretty amazing though, especially at the end when he turns into smoke. Sadly this is nothing like a hologram, you cant get close or study it, you are simple seeing light reflected on a mirror from a hidden room.

This is a common mirror trick called Pepper's Ghost, it has been used for over a hundred years and has nothing to do with CGI, this is just a very very clever implementation of it. If you jump to around 4:10 you can see that the angles go a bit weird as he turns on the stage.

This picture illustrates very well just how it works. Watching the video is pretty amazing though, especially at the end when he turns into smoke. Sadly this is nothing like a hologram, you cant get close or study it, you are simple seeing light reflected on a mirror from a hidden room.

So its sort of like how the HUD mode works on the OBD-II app for my phone (reads data from engine computer, displays it on phone in real-time). You put the phone on your dash-board and the screen reflects off the glass on the windshield.

This is a common mirror trick called Pepper's Ghost, it has been used for over a hundred years and has nothing to do with CGI, this is just a very very clever implementation of it. If you jump to around 4:10 you can see that the angles go a bit weird as he turns on the stage.

This picture illustrates very well just how it works. Watching the video is pretty amazing though, especially at the end when he turns into smoke. Sadly this is nothing like a hologram, you cant get close or study it, you are simple seeing light reflected on a mirror from a hidden room.

This is the same thing they did with the Miku Hatsune concerts in Japan. It's not new, but this is the first time this sort of tech has been used this way.

Yeah. I think it is pretty amazing the illusion it gives. To be honest though I think the Tupac one looks way way more realistic probably because of the lighting/angles, at 0:36 on that one you can see the large sheet on of the stage, as well as the reflections because of all of the glowsticks.

To be honest though I think the Tupac one looks way way more realistic probably because of the lighting/angles, at 0:36 on that one you can see the large sheet on of the stage, as well as the reflections because of all of the glowsticks.

and also you know, the fact that Tupac looks like a human and not some weird proportioned plastic doll.

I am not saying hes bad, I am just pointing out that I think his music is generic and people go "woah, amazung!!!!!2!11one" just because hes a popular rapper.

Except he isn't generic at all and if you think that it's because you're either totally uninformed or because he was so fucking great that he's influenced hundreds upon hundreds of other rappers since the 90s all through to now, so his sound isn't as unique or whatever as it was back when he was actually releasing albums since other people have been doing his thing after he died and still are doing it.

Except he isn't generic at all and if you think that it's because you're either totally uninformed or because he was so fucking great that he's influenced hundreds upon hundreds of other rappers since the 90s all through to now, so his sound isn't as unique or whatever as it was back when he was actually releasing albums since other people have been doing his thing after he died and still are doing it.

Being the original doesn't make you generic

I guess its that then, I have never really cared for rapping and this guy is no different in my eyes. But I am not trying to offend anybody here. People like different things.

It's really cool, and I don't mean to be a dick, but of all the musicians that they could have debuted this technology with they went with a rapper? I'm not saying Tupac had no influence, because he definitely did, but I don't know, it just feels like this would have had more wow-factor if it was someone else.

While I appreciate the technical wizardry and honest intentions of this... I think it's important to remember you're not watching Tupac. You're watching somebody's fake interpretation of him. The performance you're seeing on stage was probably motion captured from an entirely unrelated person, Digital Domain (the VFX house behind the CG hologram) won't even admit as to how much of the audio/voice is actually from Tupac himself. For all we know it could be an impersonator.

Personally, I feel this cheapens his memory. I can understand why others would feel the opposite though.

That said (bit of self contradiction going on here...) this is hardly any less live and "real" than the lip-synced or auto-tuned "live" performances which are so common place these days. Half the time when ou go to see an artist live you end up watching them on a screen anyway.

I guess I don't know what to think. I think real live music is about the connection between the artist and an audience, and I hope that never gets lost. Part of me worries it already is.